SAVED FROM THE REDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 189, 12 August 1932, Page 10

SAVED FROM THE REDS

SCOTSMAN TO THE RESCUE REVOLUTION IN CHILE WELL-LAID PLANS SUCCEED. Chile’s second revolution within a fortnight has seen a Scotsm'an outwit an Irishman and put the latest junta in this troubled republic in a fair way to recognition by the world in general. Don Carlos Davila, who took the leading part in the first coup d’etat, and then lost the fruits of his daring action because he would not countenance the extreme measures of the Communists, is back in power, and “moderate Socialism,” with a fair deal for foreign investors, is his watchword. Colonel Marmaduke Grove, the Irishborn Chilean revolutionary, who led the “Reds” and sidetracked Davila a fortnight previously, was again placed under lock and key and condemned to deportation. The man chiefly responsible for his downfall is tho dashing, red-haired son of a Scotsman, Lieutenant Campbell. Campbell and his associates laid their plans so well that not a shot was fired, though a great display of aeroplanes, tanks and armoured cars had the desired moral effect on the population of the capital, who wisely refrained from interfering with the counter-revolu-tionaries. Grove, when convinced of the serious challenge to his authority of the new movement, announced his intention to “die fighting.” But he locked himself in a small room in the palace, and a single threat of bullets through the door was sufficient to make him surrender. Davila, once in power, stated that his Government would respect all interrational engagements, and an arrangement is to be made with regard to foreign holdings in Cosach, the great nitrate undertakings, in which large sums of British money are sunk, that is expected to appeal to all •concerned. It is stated that l when the Grove regime was overthrown evidence was discovered that the Irishman was in the pay of the Soviets. The task of the counter-revolutionaries was made simple owing to the fact that tne leaders of the fighting services were tired of the swing to the extreme Left of the men they had placed in power. A sequel to the latest coup may be the return of either ex-President Montero or ex-Prcsident Ibanez. Both are in Argentina, and it was stated that, tentative proposals had been made to them by the new leaders over the telephone. Meantime, Ireland has faded from the revolutionary stage, and Scotland is playing a bigger and a better part.